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A battle over bare-breasted women at one of Maryland’s most popular vacation spots is heating up as summer hits without a clear answer on whether women are free to be free at the beach. With the heat approaching, authorities in Ocean City issued a memo this week directing the beach patrol not to confront bare-chested women or ask them to cover up regardless of complaints. The policy is to stand until the Maryland Attorney General’s Office opines on state indecent exposure laws after a local beachgoer declared that if men can go sans tops, then women can, too.

Phyllis Schlafly, the St. Louis-born American intellectual who grew from a shy and beautiful girl to become one of the most influential political activists of the 20th and 21st century, died today, Monday, September 5, 2016 according to Eagle Forum. Schlafly has written or co-written more than 20 books, on military policy, education, legal and social issues. Her first book, “A Choice, Not an Echo,” is credited with winning Barry Goldwater the Republican nomination for president and inspiring the conservative movement that eventually led to Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Her military work was a major factor in Reagan's’ decision to proceed...

How to be "Progressive."

Approximately ten years ago, I was the Director of Managed Care for Temple University Health Sciences Center (TUHSC). The institution was one of the largest hospitals in Pennsylvania – indeed the country – and was a well-regarded academic medical center nationally. Then TUHSC’s Department of Obstetric, Gynecology and Reproductive Services operated, and I believe still does, the Temple Infant Parent Support Services (TIPSS) program. The purpose of TIPSS was to address the issue of infant mortality in the impoverished North Philadelphia neighborhood where TUHSC was located. TIPSS was a good program, which provided prenatal and postnatal care for local mothers...